He led the nonviolent movement to gain India's independence from Great Britain.
Who is Mohandas Gandhi?
100
Since the dawn of civilization, people have tended to settle near these physical features.
What are river valleys and natural harbors?
100
A type of government in which power is shared between national, state, and local governments.
What is federal?
100
Type of economy in which all resources are collectively owned and directed by the government. The government decides what and how much to produce.
What is a command economy?
100
This body of water is the saltiest body of water on Earth, and nothing can live in it.
What is the Dead Sea?
200
He spent over twenty years in prison before being elected the first black president of South Africa.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
200
These mountains have acted as a natural defense against invaders from the north for India.
What are the Himalayas?
200
A type of government in which power is held centrally, usually by the national government.
What is unitary?
200
Economy in which individual producers must figure out how to plan, organize, and coordinate the production of products and services. Resources are allocated through individual decision making.
What is a market economy?
200
This nation in Southwest Asia is landlocked, and has very few natural resources.
What is Afghanistan?
300
He spent decades fighting for Vietnamese independence against the French, before fighting against the United States to unify the country as a communist nation.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
300
These physical features cover large areas of the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, and very few people live in them because they lack water.
What are deserts?
300
A type of government in which power is shared equally among member states.
What is a confederation?
300
The workers, and the training they receive, that produce the goods and services in an economy.
What is human capital?
300
This Asian nation is an archipelago with few natural resources, so it has to trade in order to survive.
What is Japan?
400
He defeated Chiang Kai Shek's nationalist army, and established China as a communist nation in 1949.
Who is Mao Zedong?
400
This transitional land forms a barrier between the Sahara Desert and the African savanna.
What is the Sahel?
400
A type of government where all of the power is held by a small group of people.
What is an oligarchy?
400
The factories, machines, and other equipment that are used to manufacture products for sale.
What are capital goods?
400
This nation straddles the continents of Asia and Europe, and once made up the core of the Ottoman Empire.
What is Turkey?
500
He used 'slant drilling' of oil as an excuse to invade Kuwait in 1990, but was quickly pushed back to Iraq by a U.S. led coalition of U.N. forces.
Who is Saddam Hussein?
500
This very important waterway connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, which makes trade between Europe and Asia much easier.
What is the Suez Canal?
500
A type of government where all of the power is held by a single person.
What is an autocracy?
500
Type of economy in which goods and services are produced by the family for their personal consumption. Shaped largely by custom or religion.
What is a traditional economy?
500
This African nation has the country of Lesotho completely inside its borders.